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That's what has stumped me - FYI, I have not tried b2 on this particular board, only b3 and have reinstalled completely 9 times for various reasons. Everytime, the video is exactly the same. Using 64bit DVD and have tried CDs once as well.

Cirion - this is the exact board I have got, plus 2GB RAM and Athlon 5200+. And the Nova T 500 card that Totallymaxed recommended - but that can't be relevant anyway, because its not just TV, its all video. What BIOS version are you using? Have you upgraded the BIOS?

All - are you saying that if, for instance, on a TV station there is a pan at a reasonable speed, that it is completely smooth without any jerking? Another very obvious symptom is when watching morning TV, where they often have a news ticker scrolling across the bottom of the screen, this is constantly jerky...

Has anybody used any specific configuration in the drivers (options) or xorg.conf file or any other configuration that might have helped? BTW - yes I am setting the BIOS's video/system memory apperture to the max, 256MB (which is in fact the default anyway!)

Sorry, I didn't mention that in this thread (detailed it in my many other posts on this subject )

My CPU is not high - often averaging less than 20%. BTW - its a dual core, can I assume that CPU % should add up to 200%? As I have seen it well over 100% on occasion... effectively meaning that 100% is 50% of the entire box?

Haven't looked at memory to be honest.... looking right now. Sorting on MEM%

mysql - 5%photo_screen_saver - 4.9%OrbiterGL - 4.6%Xine_player - 2.4%Proxy Orbiter - 2.0%DCERouter - 1.6%xorg - 1.5%plutovdr - 1.3%and a handful of others around the 1% mark. This on a 2GB system - Mem comes up as around 1.8GB and swap about 1.8GB... would have been easier just to cut and paste! Here you go...

Colin:Here are a few other things to check-1) Bios is it current?2) Video settings in the bios- how much video memory have you set for the video system (on-board video) it should be 128 MB for HD. A separate card does not have this issue. But the video window should be set to 128 MB in the bios.3) Memory should be 1 GB in the core and 512 MB in a media director. more isn't used and less will cause problems like you mentioned.Both of these seemingly obvious issues are often overlooked and can make a big difference. And the OS can't over-ride them it seems. I have been bit by both several times.

Thx 1audio...No I haven't upgraded my BIOS yet as I have read that the latest couple introduce a particular bug. So I was asking (above) cirion what version BIOS he is on. If it was the same as mine then that probably isn't the cause. I think he missed that question.

For 2 and 3, as I mentioned above my video memory aperture is set to 256MB which is the highest it will go and the default for this BIOS anyway. System memory for the core is 2GB.

Totallymaxed - any suggestions then why I am getting such poor video performance? In all sources (TV(Nova T 500), video files (hundreds of the, all different kinds, low and high bitrates), DVDs, etc)

The video is very jerky and low frame rate even on real time sources like DVB. Pans are unwatchable! Sometimes as low as 5-10 frames per second. I have rebuilt so many times, and no difference.

Sorry Colin... I can't understand why you see such poor video performance. We just do not see that here at all. All I can assume is that there is some variable in your setup that we are missing that causing your system to under-perform... what that this though is not apparent to me!

Sorry but I'm not able to se my bios version. I can not see that screen on my TV. I press TAB and se it for a fraction of a second But I tried looking for a updated bios for my board when I first installed it, since I could not get it to boot on LAN.I did not find any bios upgrade for this board.

In the end I just erased CMOS and entered bios and loaded the optimized defaults and enabled boot on LAN. This time it worked.I see that my iGPU Frame is set to Auto (64MB) I have now set it to 256mb and will try to see if there is any difference.

I have 2 of these boards, and both required a cmos reset before they where able to boot on LAN.

I assume there is, but I think one of the Linux dudes will have to advise - probably mentioned in a log file somewhere. Certainly the VideoBIOS version is mentioned in Xorg.0.log - someone told me that the system BIOS upgrades also upgrade the VideoBIOS... does that sound right?

BTW - did you notice if the manual that comes with that board seems to indicate the wrong CMOS-clear setting for the jumper? All my other jumpers seem to be illustrated correctly in the manual, but the CMOS one seems to be the wrong way around. Took me ages to work out that's why the board wouldn't power up!